I think they might have peaked too early. Or rather Trumpism has peaked and is visibly failing too soon before a UK general election where Reform can expect enough people to buy their implementation of it.

My stance on the ethics of piracy is - the procurement of something is based on what is a fair value.

I think what you’re describing is a transactional dynamic, rather than an ethical one:

If you are hungry and someone has infinite loaves of bread, but they are charging £100 per loaf, you can choose not to buy one from them. But is it ethical that they are charging £100 for them? In this case, I would argue that the morally right thing to do would be for the seller to accept what you can afford, and for you to offer what is fair.

Artificial scarcity and extortion are two sides of the same coin IMO.

Crazy - it hasn’t happened again since my original post, until literally just now. I come on Lemmy to look for the thread and remind myself how to fix it, and here is your comment!

I’ll have a look, thanks :) How is it less secure?

This ‘centrist’ hegemony is collapsing here in the UK. For generations there has been a prevailing belief that a vote for anyone outside of the Labour/Conservative duopoly would be wasted, and they have been free to abuse that. People on both the left and right are sick of it now though.

Very interesting question.

I don’t really know any Muslim doctrine but I think you could make the argument from first principles that if the ‘owner’ of the original work is not deprived of it then it doesn’t qualify as theft.

Also, does Islam have a concept of all things ultimately belonging to god? In which case they cannot really be stolen in a strict sense.

This has proven to be the one 👍

Beans actually have plenty of protein in them. They’re also high in fibre.